Toulouse. Matthieu Marmier, the “bull” of Fenix
Trained at the club, Matthieu Marmier, the youngest player in the Toulouse squad, begins to make his way to the right-back position. In a style that belongs to him.
“Me, I am the little one with glasses”, smiles Matthieu Marmier by dint of hearing people present him like that. The glasses, which he has been wearing in competition for several years, is because he is astigmatic and hyperopic and above all because he “sees absolutely nothing without them”. And “small”, everything is relative since it still measures 1m86, even if in the brotherhoods of the rear “there are many taller than me”, agrees the native of Montauban.
It was there that the youngest player in the Toulouse squad (21) started handball. Passed by the youth selections of Tarn-et-Garonne, he then joined the pole of Raymond-Naves in Toulouse before playing at Tournefeuille in – 18 France, then at Balma in Nationale 3 under the orders of Julien Fitte-Duval, the current Union coach (N2). “To seize and, he already had his beard and his hair on his paws, physically he was very mature”, decrypts Rémi Calvel. “He is very efficient in the duels, does not hesitate to take the intervals and is not afraid of much: he is a bull”, jokes the former trainer of the training center who became assistant to Danijel Andjelkovic this summer. “I like to go into contact, take shots but anyway I don’t have much choice with my size and I don’t have a long shot anymore, so I compensate for tolerating being a little faster than the others, ”said the young left-hander.
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This characteristic style has already allowed him to show beautiful things last season when he made his first steps in the first team. Enough to encourage the club to entrust him with the post of Ayoub Abdi lining. “A mark of confidence”, believes Matthieu who “hopes to seize the slightest opportunity to show himself” as he arrives in his last year of training and that he will have to make a choice next June.
“I sign direct to make my whole career here,” he says, hoping for a proposal from his leaders. It should arrive if he confirms his good start to the season and in particular this good copy against Malmö last Tuesday (4/5 and 3 assists) when he took over from Abdi, injured (foot). “The hardest part is not to surprise, it is to last and he will have to be consistent”, estimates Calvel who also invites him “to progress in his relationship with other players, his pivot or his winger” . “Yes, I have to work on my vision to broaden my palette”, admits the one who, as a teenager, watches a lot of videos of a certain Valentin Porte: “He was not taller than the others either and I loved his style. game “. We can only wish him the same career.